Monday Science Links

Here's this week's set of science links:

• Dave at Cognitive Daily on why we are blind to some changes but not to others.


• Carl Zimmer blogs at The Loom. He's arguably the best science writer of our times. This piece isn't at a blog, it's at Seed Magazine on-line, but I'm putting a link to it here anyway. The Meaning of Life: "We create life, we search for it, we manipulate and revere it. Is it possible that we haven't yet defined the term?"


• Judith Weingarten at Zenobia: Empress of the East on Sassanian Persian cavalry in the first of a series about Palmyra's enemies (other than Rome, of course).


• Bee at Backreaction on keeping her name when she married - because she had published under it. Not strictly science, but an interesting perspective from a scientist on "being Googlable".


• Clifford at Asymptotia on the origins of a species killer - a collision in space that's possibly not done yet.

Enjoy!